For the _Gypsies_, they and the _Foul Disease_ have alike the Fate to run through a _Geography_ of _Names_, and to be made free of as many _Countries_, as almost there are _Languages_ to call them Names in; for as the _French_ call the _Pox_, the _Italian_ Disease, they again give it to the _Spaniards_, as these to the _French_; so the _French_ call the Gypsies _Boemie_, or _Bohemians_, belike, because they made their first Appearance in _Bohemia_ of any Part of _Europe_; the _Italians_ Name them _Zingari_ or _Saracens_, the _Spaniards_ _Ilanos_ as we _Egyptians_; whether it be, that the _Italians_ give them the _Turks_, as the _Spaniards_ give them the _Moors_, as being both the next Neighbors to each; I take not upon me to Determine, only it may be observed, betwixt the Complement of either kind, the Odds is no greater than this, of giving a Nation a Clap, or of laying a brood of Bastards at it’s Door. Though _Holland_ has no Beggers, if the _Dutch_ themselves are not the greatest Beggers in the World; and _Switzerland_ has no Thieves, if the _Swiss_ who are altogether Soldiers, are not the greatest of Thieves. Yet, I say, neither the _States_ that are without _Beggers_, nor the _Cantons_ that are without _Thieves_, are notwithstanding either the one or the other, without _Gypsies_. So as what they want of _Beggers_ and _Thieves_ in point of Antiquity, the _Gypsies_ claim above both, in point of Universality. But though _Gypsies_ are found in all Christian Countries, yet are they not in all Countries alike; their Nature and Genius being diverse, in proportion to the Countries amongst whom they Stroul; so that the same Question remains upon them, as is started of the _Winds_, as Universal Travellers as the _Gypsies_, that it seems a Doubt, Whether they partake more of the Nature of the Countries whence they rise, or of those through which they Pass? Nor is it also new to meet the _Beggers_ and the _Proverbs_ together, for the Fashion is as old as _Plautus_, who puts the Proverbs and the Jests in the Mouth of his _Slaves_. And in the Character of _Sancho Pancha_, _Cervantes_ has Trod in the same Steps; in the History of _Don Quixot_, _Sancho_ being distinguished no less by his _Proverbs_, than his _Asse_. And between the _Slaves_ and the _Beggers_, the Difference is no greater, than between _Fathers_ and their _Heirs_. If some Terms and Phrases of better Quality and Fashion, keep so ill Company, as Tag-Rag and Long-Tail; you are to remember, that it is no less then Customary, for _Great Persons_ a broad to hide themselves often in Disguises among the _Gypsies_; and even the late L. of _Rochester_ among us, when time was, among other Frolicks, was not ashamed to keep the _Gypsies_ Company. A NEW DICTIONARY. _Abram-cove_, c. a Naked or poor Man, also a lusty strong Rogue.